Oilers Foundation Confident Of Better Second Year
04/10/2008 06:09
EDMONTON - The Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation is confident the second year of its charity lottery will be a far easier sell than its first.
Half the tickets for this year's version of the lottery are already sold, team and foundation officials said Thursday.
And after a struggle in the first year to raise a small profit to go towards the redevelopment of Inner City High School, players and staff affiliated with the foundation say they're sure they'll reach their $1-million fundraising goal.
"We were the expansion team of lotteries," Allan Watt, Oilers vice-president of broadcasting, media and publicity, said of last year's struggle. "We had to work really hard to be even. We have a foundation which is young."
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SWIVEL HIPS SAYS:
Lets’ hope they don’t have to approach SINC again to buy a ticket to help bail them out like last year!